Chloe and Sam Magee are one game from delivering another Irish medal at the European Games after squeezing through to the quarter-finals of the badminton mixed doubles in Minsk this morning.
The pair beat Belarus 21-9, 21-11 but had to endure an anxious wait to see how the group's other climactic game unfolded.
Ultimately, France's Delphine Delrue and Thom Gicquel defeated Russia's Evgenii Dremin and Evgenia Dimova and that result meant the Magee siblings marched on.
"We knew we'd done everything we could do but it was hard to watch the Russians versus the French," said Chloe Magee.
"We knew it was going to be close but we're happy to be through."
Sam Magee added: "In the end we didn't need the points difference but it had looked like we would. It's going to take a world-class performance to get to the next level."
Meanwhile, Felix English fell just short of a medal in the Men’s Scratch Race on the first day of track cycling at the Games.
He was pipped on the line by Belarusian Yauheni Karaliok to leave English in fourth place in the Scrath Race
Lydia Boylan was also in action, racing in the Women’s Points Race, where she finished 11th with five points.
The world silver medallist went on the leader board in the early stages of the race, winning the second sprint lap, and gaining five points.
In the opening half, however, two riders lapped the field pushing Boylan further down. With fifteen laps to go, the Dubliner attacked in an effort that almost worked but she had to settle for eleventh at the end of the 100 laps.
In the qualifying rounds of the Gymnastics All Around, Adam Steele and Emma Slevin finished just outside the top eighteen and are listed as first reserves for the Finals this weekend.
Meanwhile Nhat Nguyen bowed out at the last-16 stage of the men's singles, going down 12-21, 11-21 to Great Britain's Toby Penty.
Jenny Egan put in an impressive performance in the K1 5,000m canoeing final but ultimately missed out on a place on the podium.
The 32-year-old Dubliner found herself in fifth place with two laps to go of the Minsk circuit and while she worked her way into fourth place, she could not break into the medal positions, posting a time of 25:27.936.
The leading trio proved too far ahead of Egan and the medals were split between them with Maryna Litvinchuk of Belarus taking gold.
In the men's event, Kildare's Ronan Foley finished 16th in the K1 5,000m final in a time of 23:16.064.
